I am new to PHP. We have just installed Zend Server on our IBM i in our company. I will be using PHP to create several web pages for internal use in our company. What would be a good approach for standardizing the layout of all the web pages. I would like to have each page use a "master" page so that each page has the same layout. I would like to have a header that would include our logo, etc. and a footer of some sort and have the page contents in the body of the page. Any recommmendations? Should I be looking into PHP MVC? Would jQuery be a good approach? Most of the pages will be viewed in a desktop browser so I guess I don't really need jQueryMobile. Thanks, Pat

Then any changes you want to make to the "base" only has to be done in one place. Also you can do things like session management/validation and database connection in the header also so it is not duplicated in each page.
JQuery wouldn't really help with this (it is for javascript not PHP).

Is it possible to mix PHP and HTML code in the same file? I have tried to embed a simple <?php echo 'Hello from PHP'; ?> script in an html file but the script does not execute. The surrounding html works just fine. If I try to embed html tags (a form in this case) in a php file, I get a 500 Internal Server Error. If I create a php script that uses the echo statement to echo html tags, that works fine. Any ideas? Thanks.